Swinging conveyer.



J. N. KAILOR.

SWINGING CONVEYER.

APPLICATION FILED ocr. 11, 1913.

1,137,979. Patented May 4,1915.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oruucn.

JOHN N. KAILOB, OF COLUMBUS, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR TO EMERSON-BRANTINGHAM COMPANY, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

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specification of Letters Patent.

7 Patented May a, 19 15.

To all whom it may concern. e 7

Be it known that I, JOHN N. KA'rLon, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Bartholomew and the State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Swinging Conveyers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to swinging conveyers, and has more particular reference to those used with corn shellers or threshing machinery;

One of the primary objects of my invention is to provide improved means for mounting and operating a conveyer whereby the same may be swung about a given axis to discharge at different points spaced about the same.

Another object of my invention is to provide rigid supporting means for mounting the conveyer to swing about a given axis with the conveyer held in fixed relation to said means, and to provide means for operating the conveyer, part of which operating means. are mounted on said rigid supporting means.

In the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is an elevational view of my improved swinging conveyer. Fig. 2 is an end view of same, taken from the discharge end side. Fig. 3 is a vertical section as taken on the line of section 33 of Fig. 1.

Swinging conveyers such as my improvements relate to are embodied in corn shelling machines, although their use may be applied in other machines and devices. In a corn sheller the swinging conveyer receives corn from an elevator at the pivot end of the conveyer, and is adapted to convey the corn thus received to Wagons at sides of the sheller, the conveyer being movable to various positions, swung upon its said pivot, to be brought into proper relation with the several wagons.

In the drawings I have illustrated only so much of a corn sheller as are directly connected with my improvements, the corn sheller parts comprising a corn elevator 4 which is adapted to discharge into the conveyer, and a deck portion 5 upon which the conveyer supporting means are mounted.

Two vertically disposed supporting bars 6 are secured at points spaced apart on the deck 5 and converge upwardly, their top ends being fastened fixedly in a bracket 7,

which has formed therewith a vertically dis- 1' posed bearing 8 and an annular flange 9 providing a flat horizontal bearing face 10. A vertical shaft 11 is journaled at its upper end in bearing 8, at its lower end in the bearing bracket 12 which is fixed to the deck 5, and said shaft has a bevel-gear 13 mounted fixed thereon and shouldering the top of said bearing bracket. A bearing extension 14: from the bracket 12 supports a stub-shaft carrying a bevel-gear in mesh with gear 13 and has a suitable drive to a shaft 11 carried by the sheller. Shaft 11 extends above bearing 8 and mounted turnable upon said extension and the face 10 is a conveyer supporting bracket 15 which has two arms 16 and 17 located on diametrically opposite sides of shaft 11, said arms forming the direct means through which the conveyer is supported. A bevel-gear 18 is fixed to the upper end of shaft 11 and serves to hold the bracket 15 in position but free to move rotatably. A band 19 loosely circumposed about the bracket 15 has a portion fixedly connected to the bracket 7 and has spaced ends 19 connected by a bolt whereby the band may be tightened upon said bracket and the conveyer locked in any of its movable positions.

The conveyer casing 20 has a horizontally circular receiving end 21, and has an anger 22 mounted rotatably to convey corn received at the receiving end and discharge it at the end 23. The receiving end of the auger-shaft is journaled in a bearing 24 formed at the upper end of arm 17, said end of arm 17 being also connected with the end of the casing 20 and forming together with its bearing connection one point of support for the conveyer, said casing being pivotally connected at 25 to the upper end of arm 16 forming a second point of support, and supporting rod 26 connected to the lugs 27 on the bracket 15, pivotally, and to the free end of the conveyer at 28 serving as a third point of support between the conveyer and turnable member. An intermediate-shaft 29 between the auger-shaft and drive-shaft 11, is journaled in bearing 30, a part of arm 17, and carries a bevel-gear in mesh with bevelgear 18 and a spur-gear in mesh with a spurgear 31 fixed to the auger-shaft. The elevator 4 has a depending discharge 32 circular in shape, which loosely cooperates with the receiving end 21 of the conveyer, allowing the conveyer a loose turnable connection therewith, the conveyer being free from deriving any support from the elevator through said joint;

When the conveyer set in the desired position to discharge and shaft 11 is rotated, the driving shaft 1 1 will be rotated and the auger 22 operated through the bevel and spur gearing in connection with bracket 15, to convey corn from the receiving end 21 to the discharge end 23. I

It will be noticed by the provision of the turntable face 10 and the mounting of the bracket 15 turnable upon the upper end of shaft 11, that with the conveyer supported by arms extending from said bracket at opposite sides of said shaft, a means for supmembers of the conveyer and elevator, or

through means connected to the elevator for supporting the suspended end of the conveyer.

It will be observed that I have provided means in the form of a strut or brace for supporting the suspended end of the conveyer, which means are mounted directly from the turnable bracket and movable therewith. It is manifest that instead of supporting said suspended end by a connection from the conveyer or other part of the corn sheller frame in such manner that the connection because of its elevated and exposed position is very apt to be damaged by collision with other objects, I have provided a supporting means which is com- Further, that by this means transverse to that of the auger-shaft, a member turnable on the axis of said drive-shaft, supporting connection between said conveyer and turnable member, said connection including a bearing for the auger-shaft and a bearing for an intermediate-shaft, an intermediate-shaft journaled in the latter bearing, and gear connection between the interrpediate-shaft and the auger and drive sha ts.

2. In combination with a conveyer having I an auger-shaft, a drive-shaft having its axis transverse to that of the auger-shaft, a member turnable on the axis of the drive-shaft, a fixed connection between the conveyer and the turnable member, an intermediate-shaft mounted on the turnable member, and a gear connection between said intermediate-shaft and theidrive and auger shafts.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN N. KAILOR.

Witnesses:

MONTA HUNTER, CARLos S. FOLGER.

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